What style is this?

[rayheinrich]

This, obviously, is quite germane to "style".

I always use the word affect as a noun, but as far as I know that might be obsolete. Affect as in affective. I live in the middle of nowhere and primarily read books that were published no later than the 50s and have that nice library smell. Or had. Most have been destroyed. I admit I rarely read any books that were printed after 1950-1970. So I might be severely ignorant.

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I think sometimes it's best to quote myself from one of my self-published books no one's ever read. Saying: If I hadn't been wrong then, I wouldn't be right now.

"If I read a poem in 2003 that had a magical affect on me..."
Just for the record, you're using "affect" incorrectly. The sentence above requires "effect".
More:

"Affect" is a perfectly good noun (its accent is on its first syllable), but it denotes a mental or emotional
state and is mostly used in psychology.
You could use:
"If I read a poem in 2003 that produced magical affect in me..."
or "If I read a poem in 2003 that made my affect magical..."

His poems have a magical effect on me.
His poems magically affect me.
His poems could effect a magical feeling in me.
His poems induce magical affect in me. (After reading his poems, my affect is magical.)

His poems effect an effect that affects my affect.

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Superfluous:
Hand me a tomato. / I raise tomatoes.
Hand me a squash. / I raise squash. I raise squashes.
Hand me some wheat. / I raise wheat.

I have a case of flu
I have a case of the flu.
I have a flu.
I have the flu.
I have flu